Hammons Field features

Custom Manufacturing & Polishing Inc. furnished stainless steel handrails inside the park; stainless steel is cheaper than painted steel handrails in the long run.

CMPI also etched laces into stainless steel baseballs that appear on collector heads on the downspouts outside the park.

Acme Brick provided 100,000 bricks, including glazed accent bricks in patina green.

MJM Services Construction of Belleville, Ill., which recently finished the Kansas City Royals playing field, sprigged Hammons Field rather than sodding it because sprigging outperforms sod in the long term.

Electrical transformers provided by Sechler Electric and City Utilities supply the complex with 7,000 amps; there are four transformers.

Sounds Great (Electro-Voice speakers), after winning a sound competition between Audio Acoustics (Bose speakers), equipped the field with 25,000 watts of power.

About 230,000 masonry blocks from Nattinger Materials Company were used for portions of the structure to reduce cost.

General contractor Killian Construction used 80 percent local subcontractors.